Tag: top-stories
Love Is in the Air: Mubi Courts Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia” Starring Muse Toni Servillo
Last December we learned that Paolo Sorrentino was quickly moving back into the director's chair for his eleventh feature film, and now Variety reports...
Interview: Cutter Hodierne – Cold Wallet
He wasn't the first and certainly will not be the last to launch big at Sundance with a directorial debut and then take a...
Interview: Sing J. Lee – The Accidental Getaway Driver
Winner of the Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition (see video), and renowned for his work in commercials and video clips, filmmaker Sing...
2025 Berlinale: “Dreams (Sex Love)” Won the Golden Bear … but “The Blue Trail” Was the Best Film
Todd Haynes' jury awarded the 75th Berlin Intl. Film Festival's top honors this past Saturday to Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams (Sex Love) but the...
Independent Spirit Awards 2025: “Anora” Lands 3 Including Best Feature, “A Real Pain” & “Dìdi” Double-Up
The Indie Spirit Awards is that weird event that most commonly overlaps with the bigger film award show gala (aka the Academy Awards) and...
Interview: Producer David Thion – Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Hansen-Løve’s If Love Should Die
This year marks the silver anniversary of French film producer David Thion, who made his debut with Emmanuel Mouret’s Laissons Lucie Faire! in 2000....
Interview: Péter Kerekes – Wishing on a Star (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Fiction and documentary filmmaker Péter Kerekes ventured into a documentary subject he initially had little interest in—until he encountered the captivating personality of a...
La cache (The Safe House) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
May Days: Baier’s Broad Commentary on a Revolutionary Footnote
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people,” said Eleanor Roosevelt. Dipping...
Third Anniversary of Solidarity With Ukraine – Maciej Ślesicki & Filip Hillesland’s “Ludzie” Screened Across the Globe
The Warsaw Film School is proud to announce a worldwide film screening event to mark the third anniversary of the ongoing war in Ukraine....
Yunan | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Nothing is Everything: Eldin’s Continuing Exploration of Existential Crisis
For his sophomore film Yunan, intended as the second chapter in a thematic trilogy following 2021’s...
Interview: Muhammed Hamdy – Perfumed with Mint (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Steeped in darkness and stillness, there is this pervasive sense of longing that permeates the ruins, not entirely deserted, structures of an unnamed section...
Mother’s Baby | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby: Moder Repeats Motherhood Horrors
A palpable, instinctual fascination with the potential horrors of pregnancy are exactly why neonatal dread...
The Message (El mensaje) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Gates of Heaven: Fund Explores Creature Comforts from Beyond
“We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we...
What Marielle Knows | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Best Little Secrets Are Kept: Hambalek’s Absurdly Skewers the Virtues of Honesty
Honesty may indeed be the best policy and maybe the truth might...
Interview: Damian Kocur – Under the Volcano (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Polish filmmaker Damian Kocur is still relatively new to the film scene, but has quickly established himself as a provocative new auteur to watch...
On vous croit (We believe you) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
High Tension: Deville & Dufeys Suffer the Children in Jittery Debut
Tossing us right into the hellfire of an acutely agonizing situation, Charlotte Deville and...
Girls on Wire | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Mad Bills to Pay: Qu Stages Miserabilist Soap Opera
If Girls on Wire settles on anything clear to say it’s quite simply that crime doesn’t...
Interview: Nuno Miranda – Flowers of the Dead (Work in progress – 2024 Marrakech Atlas Workshops)
The Atlas Workshops is Marrakech International Film Festival's vital industry and talent-development programme for projects in development, films in production and in post-production. Among...
Interview: Zamo Mkhwanazi – Laundry (Work in progress – 2024 Marrakech Atlas Workshops)
The Atlas Workshops is Marrakech International Film Festival's vital industry and talent-development programme for projects in development, films in production and in post-production. Among...
Hysteria | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Burn After Filming: Büyükatalay Explores Colliding Perspectives in Nuanced Drama
While it can’t be described as a classic thriller, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s sophomore film Hysteria...
Ari | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Murmur of the Heart: Serraille Conquers Indifference Through Sincerity
With her third feature, Ari, director Léonor Serraille confirms a clear pattern of interest in exploring...
The Best Mother in the World (A melhor mãe do mundo) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Life is Beautiful: Muylaert Takes Aim at Domestic Abuse in Heartfelt Drama
In A melhor mãe do mundo (The Best Mother in the World), the...
The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Devil May Care: Bucio’s Tantalizing Premise Fizzles Out
With an enigmatic premise and a formidably morbid title, Ernesto Martinez Bucio’s debut The Devil Smokes...
Interview: Jeff Nichols – The Passenger, Stella Maris, Land of Opportunity, The Yankee Comandante
Before Jeff Nichols took the indie film world (with Take Shelter) by storm—both literally and figuratively—he made his mark with Shotgun Stories (premiered at...
Maine Stay: Mubi Falls For Oliver Hermanus’ “The History of Sound”
The History of Sound, the highly anticipated feature love story featuring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor has found a home. Oliver Hermanus who directed...
The Good Sister (Schwesterherz) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Sister, My Sister: Fischer Tests the Moral Fibers of Familial Bonds
An ethical dilemma curdles in the heart of Sarah Miro Fischer’s directorial debut Schwesterherz...
Home Sweet Home | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Sofie, Homemaker: Petersen Banks on Undervalued Emotional Labor
Danish director Frelle Petersen’s latest title Home Sweet Home (Hjem kaere hjem) aims to showcase the significant...
Interview: Matthew Rankin – Universal Language (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Imagine Tim Hortons' signage were comically flipped from right to left, or the face on Canada’s banknote replaced with the haunting image of Louis...
Das Licht | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Wasting Electricity: Tykwer Illuminates a Narrative Void
Despite revealing itself to be an interconnected rumination on aspects of the soul, Tom Tykwer’s Das Licht (The...
Exclusive Trailer: Frelle Petersen’s “Home Sweet Home” – 2025 Berlinale
The 75th edition of the Berlinale begins today and tomorrow, on Valentine's day, is the world premiere to Frelle Petersen's Home Sweet Home (Hjem...
Interview: Producer Sylvain Corbeil – Universal Language (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Marking his second decade as a film producer, I had the opportunity to sit down with Montreal-based Sylvain Corbeil at the 2024 Marrakech International...
Exclusive Clip & Poster: We Count to Three in Iván Fund’s El mensaje (The Message)
With festival premieres at Cannes (2010's Los Labios in the Un Certain Regard) and Venice (2021's Dusk Stone in the Giornate degli Autori section),...
Interview: Mo Harawe – The Village Next To Paradise (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
After being feted for his short film oeuvres at prestige fests such as the Berlinale and Locarno, Mo Harawe premiered his feature debut at...
Exclusive Clip: How We Create Images Questioned in Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s “Hysteria”
After premiering his debut feature Oray at the Berlinale in 2019 with Oray (winner of the best first feature award), German-based filmmaker Mehmet Akif...
Interview: Alexandra Qin – Thirstygirl / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
She wowed us (and Sundance programmers) with the short film (check out our Top 10 Short Films From Sundance 2024 article) on which this...
Interview: Chloe Sarbib – Trou Normand / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
We had the chance to speak to a small sampling of this year's Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows and among them we found Chloe Sarbib,...
Interview: Katla Sólnes – Eruption / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
We had the chance to speak to a small sampling of this year's Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows and first up was a filmmaker from...
Parthenope | Review
The Boring & Beautiful: Sorrentino’s Tone Deaf Portrait of a Lady
It’s unfortunate no one’s as likely to be infatuated with the eponymous Parthenope (pronounced...
Bring Them Down | Review
Everybody Hurts: All Pain and No Gain in Christopher Andrews’ Debut Bring Them Down
If misery loves company, then Bring Them Down is a party....
Interview: Natalia León – Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado (2025 Sundance Short)
A touching, sober, political and poignant text on femicide, Mexican filmmaker Natalia León's debut Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado plunges us...
All That Glitter: Raffey Cassidy, Eva Green, Ben Whishaw & Alessandro Nivola Set for Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ “Diamond Shitter”
Antonia Campbell-Hughes made the jump ionto feature filmmaking with 2022's It Is In Us All and she is now laying the groundwork for her...
Interview: Dominic Yarabe – Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune (2025 Sundance Short)
Flush with this overall sense that story emerges from the psyche and the shadows, storytelling is passed down for fear of being lost in...
Best of Sundance 2025?: Eva Victor’s “Sorry, Baby” & Geeta Gandbhir’s “The Perfect Neighbor” Top Critics Chart
We imagine it'll be extra champagne uncorking for some of the A24 folks who landed the film for a cool 8 million dollars -...
Interview: Gerardo Coello Escalante & Amandine Thomas – SUSANA (2025 Sundance Short)
Of all the major film festivals, it's perhaps the Sundance folks who have built the deepest ties with the filmmaker community and much of...
Interview: Yuxuan Ethan Wu – Death Education (2025 Sundance Short)
Among the select few documentary short films chosen for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival is Death Education, a poignant story set in China in...
2025 Sundance Film Festival: Jianjie Lin, Lennert Madou & Dominic Yarabe Among Our Top Shorts
For the second consecutive year, we reviewed all the shorts from the eight program lineups that make up the Short Film selections and narrowed...
2025 Sundance Film Festival: Hailey Gates’ Atropia is the Surprise Win for the U.S. Grand Jury Prize
The acerbic war film comedy that doesn't really take place in a war zone (Iraq) but instead, a manufactured training base landed the top...
Marcello Mio | Review
In the Name of the Father: Honore Pays Homage via Identity Crisis
“I only exist when I am working on a film,” Marcello Mastroianni...
2025 Sundance Video Diaries Days 1-3: April, Twinless, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Atropia & More!
One of the only two films selected for the Spotlight section (films that have premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit), Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili...
2025 Sundance: Mary Bronstein, Amalia Ulman, Bryn Chainey, Hailey Gates & Eva Victor in our Top 5 Most Anticipated
We’re just moments away from the 41st edition of the Sundance Film Festival. This marks our 18th time attending the iconic American indie supply...
